Don't Take My Word For It Tweets of the Day 6/5/14

Reading Rainbow aims to improve literacy once more

http://www.eschoolnews.com/2014/06/05/reading-rainbow-kickstarter-421/ 

How Do We Educate Global Problem Solvers?

http://www.edutopia.org/blog/educating-global-problem-solvers-zoe-weil 

Do Educators Really Need Blog Posts?

http://www.edutopia.org/blog/do-educators-need-blog-posts-tom-whitby 

What’s Your Learning Disposition? How to Foster Students’ Mindsets 

http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2014/03/whats-your-learning-disposition-how-to-foster-students-mindsets/

Behind the Headline: Segregation by Ability

http://educationnext.org/behind-headline-segregation-ability/ 

Four Ways to Move from ‘School World’ to ‘Real World’

http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2014/06/four-ways-to-move-from-school-world-to-real-world/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+kqed%2FnHAK+%28MindShift%29 

Boring School Staff Meeting? Here Are Some Ideas

http://www.teachthought.com/teaching/boring-school-staff-meeting/ 

 

 

The World Is Our Classroom Tweets of the Day 2/1/14

 

1. 7 Global Education Facts & Statistics That Reflect A Changing World

http://www.teachthought.com/culture/7-global-education-facts-statistics-reflect-changing-world/ 

2. New Site Highlights State and Local Innovative Ideas from Educators’ Perspectives

http://www.ed.gov/blog/2014/01/new-site-highlights-state-and-local-innovative-ideas-from-educators-perspectives/ 

3. February’s best teacher freebies for PreK-12

http://thecornerstoneforteachers.com/2014/02/februarys-best-teacher-freebies-prek-12.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheCornerstone+%28The+Cornerstone+Blog%29&utm_content=My+Yahoo 

4. Unlikely Allies Agree On Common Core Opposition

http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2014/01/unlikely-allies-agree-on-objections-to-common-core/ 

5. Close Reading Standard
http://smartblogs.com/education/2014/01/30/an-alternate-take-on-the-close-reading-standard/

6. The e-Book's the Thing

http://www.edutopia.org/blog/ebook-is-the-thing-technology-classroom-suzie-boss 

7. Warning! Close reading questions pose more problems than they appear

http://smartblogs.com/education/2013/02/12/warning-close-reading-questions-pose-more-problems-than-they-appear/